Destroying your designs can sometimes be more satisfying than creating it in the first place. Like you guys, I’m always searching for good Photoshop brushes to use to distress or destroy my artwork. In January, our friends at Lost and Taken created a phenomenal set of grungy film textures. I instantly fell in love with these textures. They are awesome when it comes to adding a bit of grunge to your designs but I also realized the potential for some really great Photoshop brushes. Thankfully, the guys at Lost and Taken agreed to allow me to create a set of 27 High Resolution Grungy Film Photoshop Brushes from those textures and release them to you guys on this site. Enjoy them! They should be a lot of fun to play with.

Recently I re-released a set of popular paint brush style Illustrator brushes on this site. After doing so, it didn’t take long before requests for more brushes in that style started pouring in. I love feedback from my readers so I was happy to produce more brushes in that style. So today, I am releasing a set of 33 paint brush style Illustrator brushes for you guys to use in your designs for free. I hope you enjoy them! And don’t forget, I love feedback so feel free to comment and let me know what you think about this set of brushes.

In Photoshop there are several ways to simulate a painted canvas look in your designs. All methods have their pros and cons but neither are very great at simulating the brush strokes created when an actual paint brush hits the canvas. The best method involves reproducing a canvas and brush texture and applying it to a Photoshop brush. So last week I designed a set of brushes that works very well at simulating this effect and published it on one of my favorite sites; Smashing Magazine.